Durham Big Meeting

[Voice of fair play]

Has it occurred to you that he might have been pawning the bracelet or redeeming it? Loads of people – striking miners and their wives/girlfriends – did that in all the coalfields.

A year on strike is a long time and people got money from whatever source they could, including pawning personal valuables.

Dave Hopper drew no pay during the strike.



Do your own dirty work.

A year is a long time on strike agree totally, long enough to want to go back to work to feed your family?

 

[Mackem Mad]

All of this sea-lioning demanding evidence is a bit tiresome. You are defending some of the most awful people in North East politics

I will indulge you, but this is the last time. I met Davy briefly in the 80s, more often in the 90s onwards. I worked at Redhills for a bit.

I found him to be drunk, a bully, racist, misogynist and homophobic.

Kevan Jones MP asked loads of questions in the House about missing money. None of it was ever explained.

"I will indulge you, but this is the last time…" Oooooh, get you!

You didn't like David Hopper but I guess he didn't like you very much either.

Incidentally, I knew David Hopper as well and never found him to be any of those things you suggest.

All Kevan Jones did was to wage an unprincipled campaign, a sleazy vendetta, against the DMA and its officials as befits his fundamentally Tory politics.

A year is a long time on strike agree totally, long enough to want to go back to work to feed your family?

You mean to scab?

Not one person apart from the idiot on this thread has mentioned picket lines or scabs.

Even when he has realised somebody not talking about it.

He says ‘ just out of interest would you have crossed a picket line’

The man is obsessed it was f***ing 35 years ago!

Has anyone noticed he even has it below each post so it’s there all the time ‘ I rather be a picket than a scab’

Don’t think I have ever read a thread where one person talks soo much shit!

Yep, that person being you.

 

[gabbiadini1]

Are people really arguing on here about events 35 years ago? Let it go!

 

[Voice of fair play]

"I will indulge you, but this is the last time…" Oooooh, get you!

You didn't like David Hopper but I guess he didn't like you very much either.

Incidentally, I knew David Hopper as well and never found him to be any of those things you suggest.

All Kevan Jones did was to wage an unprincipled campaign, a sleazy vendetta, against the DMA and its officials as befits his fundamentally Tory politics.



You mean to scab?



Yep, that person being you.

Yeah scab, worse than a murderer in your eyes I guess

 

[Mackem Mad]

Are people really arguing on here about events 35 years ago? Let it go!

Yep.

 

[GordonMuchallNo1Fan]

So what did the Durham Miners Association do with the 6.4 million they had in the bank in 2007?

 

[OOOSH YEAH]

So what did the Durham Miners Association do with the 6.4 million they had in the bank in 2007?

Buying drink at the DMG I bet

 

[GordonMuchallNo1Fan]

MP Kevan Jones hits out with 10 questions Durham Miners must answer

) With the North East Area NUM having only 35 full members, including only seven contributing members in Durham, why did the President and General Secretary have a combined remuneration package of almost £170,000, particularly as the expenditure for the 2007 Gala was just £59,595? - some folk making a lot of money up here out of the miners it seems

 

[Mackem Mad]

So what did the Durham Miners Association do with the 6.4 million they had in the bank in 2007?

Ask the DMA.

Don't ask me because I have no access to the DMA's financial records. and I don't audit its books.

If you have something to say, please expand so that I can pass on your information to the DMA and ask them about it.

 

[gabbiadini1]

Yep.

Pretty pathetic tbh. Reading the articles about the trade unionist leaders, can’t see how or why anyone could defend them. If I was a member I’d be livid and wanting my subs back.

 

[Mackem Mad]

MP Kevan Jones hits out with 10 questions Durham Miners must answer

) With the North East Area NUM having only 35 full members, including only seven contributing members in Durham, why did the President and General Secretary have a combined remuneration package of almost £170,000, particularly as the expenditure for the 2007 Gala was just £59,595? - some folk making a lot of money up here out of the miners it seems

Why don't you write to the DMA on this and copy us all in?

 

[GordonMuchallNo1Fan]

Ask the DMA.

Don't ask me because I have no access to the DMA's financial records. and I don't audit its books.

If you have something to say, please expand so that I can pass on your information to the DMA and ask them about it.

I've just said it. Please pass it on to them.

Why don't you write to the DMA on this and copy us all in?

You've just said you will do it for me. I look forward to you passing on your findings

 

[Raby Mackem]

Has it occurred to you that he might have been pawning the bracelet or redeeming it? Loads of people – striking miners and their wives/girlfriends – did that in all the coalfields.

A year on strike is a long time and people got money from whatever source they could, including pawning personal valuables.

Dave Hopper drew no pay during the strike.



Do your own dirty work.

That for certain is true.

 

[Mackem Mad]

Pretty pathetic tbh. Reading the articles about the trade unionist leaders, can’t see how or why anyone could defend them. If I was a member I’d be livid and wanting my subs back.

The event you refer to "35 years" ago was a strike by miners to defend their jobs, their communities and their union from one of the most vicious assaults on trade unionism ever recorded.

End of.

 

[gabbiadini1]

The event you refer to "35 years" ago was a strike by miners to defend their jobs, their communities and their union from one of the most vicious assaults on trade unionism ever recorded.

End of.

But it was 35 years ago. It’s done. It’s over.

 

[Mackem Mad]

I've just said it. Please pass it on to them.


You've just said you will do it for me. I look forward to you passing on your findings

There is no evidence in what you have said. If you are getting your panties in a bunch so much over these matters, why don't you disclose some real evidence and publish it for all to see.

You won't. however, because you have no evidence. You are just full of shit.

 

[Voice of fair play]

The event you refer to "35 years" ago was a strike by miners to defend their jobs, their communities and their union from one of the most vicious assaults on trade unionism ever recorded.

End of.

And the poor hard working miners were caught right in the middle of it, by two sides who dint give a fuck about them.

 

[Mackem Mad]

But it was 35 years ago. It’s done. It’s over.

Oh f***ing, dear.

 

[Raby Mackem]

Pretty pathetic tbh. Reading the articles about the trade unionist leaders, can’t see how or why anyone could defend them. If I was a member I’d be livid and wanting my subs back.

IMHO that's such a general statement. I am a Union Member and have been since the 70's and I don't want my subs back.

 

[gabbiadini1]

Oh f***ing, dear.

U ok hun? x